The Martian

After a bad storm blows across Mars, astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead and left behind. Now stuck on a hostile planet, he must find a way to signal to Earth and, in the meantime, survive on limited supplies.

There's enough character development here to bring the audience to the point that you want the protagonist to survive. The compressed timeline naturally leads to several dramatic events occurring frequently. This is literally man against nature & there's not much nature on Mars, so what little nature there is must be revered & maintained.

Great movie! I saw it in theaters back when it came out and just finally got around to reading the book...which made me want to watch the movie again! Very well done, great special effects, and they did they best they could with adapting it. A few oddball changes from the original that I didn't quite get, but whatev, still a good story.

As is often the case, though, the book is better. And it's such a fast read! Go check it out!

It was a so-so movie. I liked the concept and that made the film worth it to watch. And it helps that its a Ridley Scott film which never is boring. But definitely not the best work for either one of them

Pretty close to the book with minor changes.
LOTR reference proved NASA 2035 AD a bunch of ubernerds.
Time flied despite 3 hour view or flaws like gravity, wind storms or space radiation
There is a coda of protagonist cautionary speech to potential astronauts, launch of Ares 5 with Chinese astronaut as part of quid pro quo & Mitch quietly let go to save mutual face with NASA boss.
Hopeful message of US-China cooperation.
Maybe mistake of UH-1 Huey instead of Blackhawk helicopter near Launch site. However, NASA in starve mode.
Still I wonder how UK will be in this after Brexit vote or kicked out of European Space agency.

Most of the best quotes are near identical to those from the book ( https://sccl.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1439133103_the_martian#quotation ) except the film added more earthly material at the end such as Watney addressed the students part 1 of 2:
Welcome to the Astronaut Candidate Program. Now pay attention, because this could save your life.
Trust me, I know what I'm talking about. Let me get a few things out of the way, right off the bat. Yes, I did in fact survive on a deserted planet by farming in my own shit. Yes, it's actually worse than it sounds. So let's not talk about that ever again.

Watney addressed the students part 2 of 2.
The other question I get most frequently is... "When I was up there, stranded by myself... "did I think I was going to die?" Yes, absolutely. And that's what you need to know going in because it's going to happen to you. This is space. It does not cooperate. At some point, everything is going to go south on you. Everything is going to go south and you're going to say, "This is it. "This is how I end." Now, you can either accept that...or you can get to work. That's all it is. You just begin. You do the math. You solve one problem... then you solve the next one. And then the next. And if you solve enough problems, you get to come home.